The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Mordecai Kaplan's movement institutionalized, opens in Philadelphia (founded 1968) and begins ordaining rabbis; Reconstructionism becomes the fourth American denomination.
Tagged: Jewish Reconstructionist Judaism
The Event
- Date
- 1972 (exact)
- Era
- Contemporary; Standard periodization of Jewish history
- Location
- Philadelphia; today Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Traditions
- Judaism
- Streams
- Reconstructionist Judaism
- Key figures
- Mordecai Kaplan, Ira Eisenstein
- Key texts
- Judaism as a Civilization (1934)
Primary Sources
- Reconstructionist Rabbinical College charter documents
Secondary Sources
- Scult, Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan (Wayne State, 1993)
- Sarna, American Judaism: A History (Yale, 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0132; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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